Based on your description it would sound like this is *not* a MAAS issue, but rather, it could either be a networking issue, a misconfiguration issue or a ipxe issue.
To start, from the ipxe side:
1. MAAS doesn't support PXE booting over VLANs.
2. MAAS doesn't support ipxe. We rely on the VMs on booting pxelinux emulation but MAAS doesn't pass a ipxe rom, nor configures ipxe at all.
Second, how is your network configuration? While I understand you have 3 machines running MAAS, and only VMs that have DHCP running locally can PXE boot, I'm wondering:
1. Can you confirm that all bridges of the pods on the underlying network are using a /physical/ bridge in the /same/ vlan ?
2. What's the machines interface configuration? How about the bridge configuration?
3. To what interfaces are the MAAS DHCP servers responding to? (e.g. ps faux | grep dhcpd)
4. Can you confirm that VMs inside pod on infra1 can communicate with VMs inside pod of infra2 or 3?
Hi Vern,
Based on your description it would sound like this is *not* a MAAS issue, but rather, it could either be a networking issue, a misconfiguration issue or a ipxe issue.
To start, from the ipxe side:
1. MAAS doesn't support PXE booting over VLANs.
2. MAAS doesn't support ipxe. We rely on the VMs on booting pxelinux emulation but MAAS doesn't pass a ipxe rom, nor configures ipxe at all.
Second, how is your network configuration? While I understand you have 3 machines running MAAS, and only VMs that have DHCP running locally can PXE boot, I'm wondering:
1. Can you confirm that all bridges of the pods on the underlying network are using a /physical/ bridge in the /same/ vlan ?
2. What's the machines interface configuration? How about the bridge configuration?
3. To what interfaces are the MAAS DHCP servers responding to? (e.g. ps faux | grep dhcpd)
4. Can you confirm that VMs inside pod on infra1 can communicate with VMs inside pod of infra2 or 3?
Lastly, I have a feeling that this is likely related to the network configuration itself, or the configuration of the bridges: /docs.maas. io/2.5/ en/installconfi g-network- stp /wiki.libvirt. org/page/ PXE_boot_ (or_dhcp) _on_guest_ failed
1. For networking, is STP/Portfast enabled? https:/
2. Does the bridge where the VMs use, configured with STP and/or a long forward-delay? https:/